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Incredible. I just came accross this blog called “One Month App”. The guys from Clear Function have been working on Pulse, a web-based application, more or less at the same time as I was working on Parking Friend (from the end of September to mid-October)! Their design is nicer than mine, though :) It is [...]

Como diria Casero: “Que vas a hacer mulita! La vida es asi!” Un dia te levantas, te lees un par de articulos en el Google Reader y hete aqui que tu nombre aparece en un post o mucho mas recientemente en otro de un amigo de Ginebra. El articulo al que hace referencia Spindoctor (que [...]

Are you scared of Java language change? Why? “Java 5 introduced generics amongst many other items. Unfortunately, generics are probably the most troublesome change that has been made to Java. With over 400 pages in the official generics FAQ attempting to explain weird corner cases, we know something went wrong.”

An excellent article about how to fool everyone to believe that your specification is a… standard: This is a running criticism I have of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML). It has been narrowly crafted to accommodate a single vendor’s applications. Its extreme length (over 6,000 pages) stems from it having detailed every wart of MS [...]

It is amazing to see the quantity of plugins that are available for WordPress; so far, I’ve found a plugin for every idea that I’ve had for this blog, so these are the links of each one of them: Categorical links page List subpages firstRSS WP Unformatted Another worth mentioning is Gengo for localizing (translating) [...]

My colleague and friend Jean-Eric Cuendet has just opened his own blog (on WordPress, of course!), and his first posting is a very interesting description of the new Intel Core chips… a must read! Welcome to the blogosphere Jean-Eric!